HERE'S SOME PROOF THAT NOSTALGIA ISN'T DEAD
In the news this week, we heard that Amazon, online peddler of books and other miscellaneous wares, has opened up a store in Seattle selling actual books. Made of paper and everything. In a time where people are glued to their gadgets and freely throw around phrases like ‘but isn’t print dead?’ – this seems like a slightly backwards move.
After all, Amazon are the people behind the Kindle – it seems more likely that they would continue to push the electronic book sales, no? And you can’t move for news stories about their new plans to develop tiny robot drones that will be delivering our packages within 45 minutes (or something like that.) So it stands to reason that they’d have made this foray into IRL books for a reason. Maybe books are back. Or maybe they never really went away. But what do you reckon, in the battle between Kindles vs actual books, who would win?